One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable.

I believe that a writer learns from every story he writes, and when you try different things, you learn different lessons. Working with other writers, as in Hollywood or in a shared world series, will also strengthen your skills, by exposing you to new ways of seeing the work, and different approaches to certain creative challenges.

Great wrongs have been done you, but the past is dust. The future may yet be won.

Not all books are for all people. We read for different reasons.

Kings are falling like leaves this autumn.

Shagga son of Dolf likes this not. Shagga will go with the boyman, and if the boyman lies, Shagga will chop off his manhood-" "-and feed it to the goats, yes," Tyrion said wearily.

When you play a game of thrones you win or you die.